Delayed justice?: Police fail to present man accused of rape
Journalists are being threatened to stop writing against the police: journalist Iqbal Channa.
SUKKUR:
The men accused in my daughter’s attempted rape case have not been produced in court, despite the fact that they were arrested on July 1, said the father of the attempted rape surviour, T.
T is from the Gabar Massan village which is within Badah police limits and she attended a school near by. According to R, on June 30 his daughter was doing her usual chores. “After a few minutes I heard her screaming and rushed out of the house. I saw three men running away, while my daughter lay unconscious on the ground,” he said. “I picked her up and brought her into the house. After she regained consciousness she told me that police constables Sabbir Massan, Ghulam Murtaza Massan and Abdul Ghani had tried to drag her away.”
R took her to the Badah police station, but SHO Aijaz Pathan refused to file a complaint. The girl was then admitted to the Chandka Medical Hospital, Larkana as she was drifting in and out of consciousness. Pathan filed an FIR against Sabbir and Murtaza and they were arrested on July 1. “My daughter is still in shock. I thought they would take care of her at the hospital but no one paid her any attention,” said T’s father. “She keeps shouting for help and falls into unconsciousness. The investigation officer is demanding Rs10,000 to produce the accused in court.”
According to Badah Press Club general secretary Iqbal Channa, T’s father is a poor man and his sons run horse carts for a living. “As a journalist, it is our duty to write the truth. We are receiving threats from unidentified people for writing against the police and have filed a complaint with SPO Dokri Yasin Taggar.” SPO Dokri Yasin Taggar responded by claiming that an investigation was under way.
Taggar added that the accused in the attempted rape case are trying to resolve the matter with T’s father. “The fact that the accused are not being presented in court is not that serious, if it does not happen today it will happen tomorrow,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 5th, 2011.
The men accused in my daughter’s attempted rape case have not been produced in court, despite the fact that they were arrested on July 1, said the father of the attempted rape surviour, T.
T is from the Gabar Massan village which is within Badah police limits and she attended a school near by. According to R, on June 30 his daughter was doing her usual chores. “After a few minutes I heard her screaming and rushed out of the house. I saw three men running away, while my daughter lay unconscious on the ground,” he said. “I picked her up and brought her into the house. After she regained consciousness she told me that police constables Sabbir Massan, Ghulam Murtaza Massan and Abdul Ghani had tried to drag her away.”
R took her to the Badah police station, but SHO Aijaz Pathan refused to file a complaint. The girl was then admitted to the Chandka Medical Hospital, Larkana as she was drifting in and out of consciousness. Pathan filed an FIR against Sabbir and Murtaza and they were arrested on July 1. “My daughter is still in shock. I thought they would take care of her at the hospital but no one paid her any attention,” said T’s father. “She keeps shouting for help and falls into unconsciousness. The investigation officer is demanding Rs10,000 to produce the accused in court.”
According to Badah Press Club general secretary Iqbal Channa, T’s father is a poor man and his sons run horse carts for a living. “As a journalist, it is our duty to write the truth. We are receiving threats from unidentified people for writing against the police and have filed a complaint with SPO Dokri Yasin Taggar.” SPO Dokri Yasin Taggar responded by claiming that an investigation was under way.
Taggar added that the accused in the attempted rape case are trying to resolve the matter with T’s father. “The fact that the accused are not being presented in court is not that serious, if it does not happen today it will happen tomorrow,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 5th, 2011.